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<p><a href="/issue72/editorial#author1">The new editor</a> introduces readers to the content of <em>Ariadne</em> Issue 72.</p>
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<h2 id="Change_Is_the_Only_Constant">Change Is the Only Constant</h2>
<p>Issue 72 is the product of a long period of almost constant change. In the last issue, Richard Waller waved adieu as the outgoing editor, explaining the circumstances around the change in the Editorial for Issue 71 [<a href="#1">1</a>].</p>
<p><a href="http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue72/editorial" target="_blank">read more</a></p>issue72editorialkara jonesqueensland university of technologysherpa-leapuniversity of bathlinkedup projectaltmetricscataloguingcopyrightdatadata setdigitisationdisseminationeprintshigher educationlodmetadataopen accessopen dataopen educationrepositoriesresearchWed, 26 Feb 2014 21:49:54 +0000lisrw2518 at http://www.ariadne.ac.ukDigitisation and e-Delivery of Theses from ePrints Sotonhttp://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue72/ball-fowler
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<p><a href="/issue72/ball-fowler#author1">Julian Ball</a> and <a href="/issue72/ball-fowler#author2">Christine Fowler</a> describe the partnership between the University of Southampton’s Library Digitisation Unit and its institutional repository for digitising and hosting theses.</p>
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<p>The Hartley Library at the University of Southampton has in excess of 15,000 bound PhD and MPhil theses on 340 linear metres of shelving. Consultation of the hard-copy version is now restricted to readers making a personal visit to the Library, as no further microfiche copies are being produced by the British Library and no master copies of theses are lent from the Library. Retrieval of theses from storage for readers and their subsequent return requires effort from a large number of staff.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue72/ball-fowler" target="_blank">read more</a></p>issue72feature articlechristine fowlerjulian ballabbyybritish libraryjiscuniversity of southamptonuk theses digitisation projectaggregationapiarchivescataloguingcopyrightdatadigitisationelectronic theseseprintsframeworkinstitutional repositoryjpegjstorlibrary management systemsmetadataoai-pmhocropen accessopen archives initiativeopen sourceoptical character recognitionpreservationrepositoriesresearchsearch technologysoftwareurlxmlTue, 30 Jul 2013 13:13:08 +0000editor2499 at http://www.ariadne.ac.ukShared Repositories, Shared Benefits: Regional and Consortial Repositories in Japanhttp://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue72/ozono-et-al
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<p><a href="/issue72/ozono-et-al#author1">Takeo Ozono</a>, <a href="/issue72/ozono-et-al#author2">Daisuke Ueda</a> and <a href="/issue72/ozono-et-al#author3">Fumiyo Ozaki</a> describe the work of the ShaRe Project and its influence upon the development of consortial repositories and the benefits they have brought to Japanese institutions.</p>
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<p>The ShaRe Project (Shared Repository Project 2008-2009), which aimed to promote the concept of consortial repositories and facilitate their implementation, has made a significant contribution to the rapid growth of institutional repositories (IRs) in Japan. Following precedents including White Rose Research Online (UK) and SHERPA-LEAP (UK), 14 regional consortial repositories have been set up on a prefectoral basis across Japan<a href="#editor1">*</a>.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue72/ozono-et-al" target="_blank">read more</a></p>issue72feature articledaisuke uedafumiyo ozakitakeo ozonodigital repository federationhiroshima universitykagawa universitynational institute of informaticssherpasherpa-leaprepositories support projectrspwikipediaarchivescloud computingcontent managementdatadatabasedigitisationdspaceeprintsframeworkhigher educationinfrastructureinstitutional repositoryinternet exploreropen accessoperating systemportalrepositoriesresearchsearch technologysoftwareSun, 28 Jul 2013 15:11:28 +0000lisrw2495 at http://www.ariadne.ac.ukOpen Access and Research Conference 2013: Discovery, Impact and Innovationhttp://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue72/oar-2013-rpt
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<p><a href="/issue72/oar-2013-rpt#author1">Paula Callan</a>, <a href="/issue72/oar-2013-rpt#author2">Stephanie Bradbury</a>, <a href="/issue72/oar-2013-rpt#author3">Sarah Brown</a>, <a href="/issue72/oar-2013-rpt#author4">Philippa Broadley</a>, <a href="/issue72/oar-2013-rpt#author5">Emma Nelms</a> and <a href="/issue72/oar-2013-rpt#author6">Christopher Hart</a> report on Open Access and Research 2013 which focused on recent developments and the strategic advantages they bring to the research sector.</p>
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<p>Brisbane, Queensland, Australia was the host location for the second Open Access and Research 2013 conference [<a href="#1">1</a>]. The conference was held at the Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Gardens Point campus over 31 October – 1 November 2013. QUT has over 45,000 students and has a wide range of specialist research areas.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue72/oar-2013-rpt" target="_blank">read more</a></p>issue72event reportchristopher hartemma nelmspaula callanphilippa broadleysarah brownstephanie bradburyapplebadcelseviergriffith universitymassachusetts institute of technologynisoqueensland university of technologyuniversity of sydneyvictoria universityaggregationaltmetricsarchivescollection developmentcopyrightcreative commonscurationdatadata citationdata managementdata setdisseminationdoie-researcheprintsframeworkhigher educationinfrastructureinstitutional repositorylicencemetadataopen accessopen dataopen sourceportfolioraerepositoriesresearchsearch technologysoftwarevideoSun, 16 Feb 2014 18:46:48 +00002507 at http://www.ariadne.ac.ukKAPTUR the Highlights: Exploring Research Data Management in the Visual Artshttp://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue71/garrett-et-al
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<p><a href="/issue71/garrett-et-al#author1">Leigh Garrett</a>, <a href="/issue71/garrett-et-al#author2">Marie-Therese Gramstadt</a>, <a href="/issue71/garrett-et-al#author3">Carlos Silva</a> and <a href="/issue71/garrett-et-al#author4">Anne Spalding</a> describe the exploration of the importance and nature of research data in the visual arts and requirements for their appropriate curation and preservation.</p>
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<p>KAPTUR (2011-13) [<a href="#1">1</a>], funded by Jisc and led by the Visual Arts Data Service, was a collaborative project involving four institutional partners: the Glasgow School of Arts; Goldsmiths, University of London; University for the Creative Arts; and the University of the Arts London.&nbsp;Research data have in recent years become regarded as a valuable institutional resource and their appropriate collection, curation, publication and preservation as essential. This has been driven by a number of internal and external forces, and all UK Research Councils now require it as a condition of funding [<a href="#2">2</a>]. As a result, a network of data repositories has emerged [<a href="#3">3</a>], some funded by research councils and others by institutions themselves. However, at the outset of the project, research data management practice within the visual arts appeared to operate rather <em>ad hoc</em> with none of the specialist arts institutions within the UK having either implemented research data management policies [<a href="#4">4</a>] or established research data management systems.&nbsp; KAPTUR sought to:</p>
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<li>investigate the nature of visual arts research data;</li>
<li>make recommendations for its effective management;</li>
<li>develop a model of best practice applicable to both specialist institutions and arts departments within multidisciplinary institutions; and</li>
<li>apply, test and refine the model of best practice across the four institutional partner institutions.</li>
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<p>This paper outlines the background and context of the project; explores the nature of visual arts research data; details the outcomes of the user and technical review; and describes the work which underwent within the partner institutions around policy formation and staff engagement.</p>
<p>Led by the Visual Arts Data Service (VADS), in collaboration with the Glasgow School of Art, Goldsmiths College, University of the Arts London and University for the Creative Arts, and funded by Jisc, KAPTUR [<a href="#1">1</a>] sought to ‘...discover, create and pilot a sectoral model of best practice in the management of research data in the [visual] arts.’ [<a href="#5">5</a>].</p>
<p style="text-align: center; "><img alt="logo Visual Arts Data Service (VADS)" src="http://ariadne-media.ukoln.info/grfx/img/issue71-garrett-et-al/logo-2.jpg" style="width: 600px; height: 210px;" title="logo Visual Arts Data Service (VADS)" /></p>
<p>Recent years have witnessed an increasing recognition across the Higher Education sector that research data are a valuable resource and therefore its appropriate curation and preservation are essential.&nbsp; In addition, wider societal and political forces meant that research councils, teams and researchers were coming under increasing pressure to make publicly funded data freely available.&nbsp; As such the publication of research data was increasingly becoming a requirement of funding, for example the Arts and Humanities Research Council [<a href="#6">6</a>] and Medical Research Council [<a href="#7">7</a>]. Equally important was the need for increased data transparency, and to enable researchers to access existing datasets to test the validity and reliability of the data and associated research methods; to reinterpret the data; and to preserve the data for future scrutiny. In response, many universities, for example the University of Edinburgh, had established institutional research data management systems to support the deposit and preservation of research data, whilst others were in the process of piloting services, for example the University of Leicester, and establishing policies and procedures which actively support researchers to manage their data effectively, such as Canterbury Christ Church University and Northumbria University. In addition, many of the research councils themselves had established repositories, for example the UK Data Archive at the University of Essex, which curates research data in the social sciences and humanities, and the Natural Environment Research Council, which supports a network of data centres across its disciplinary areas.</p>
<p>However, given the emerging landscape, at the outset of the project it was clear that very little was known about the collection, curation and usage of research data in the visual arts:&nbsp;none of the specialist arts institutions had research data management policies or infrastructure in place and evidence collected at the time indicated that practice was at best, <em>ad hoc</em>, left to individual researchers and teams with limited support or guidance. Little work had been undertaken to understand the distinctive and varied nature of research data in the visual arts, and even less to understand how these data could be collected, curated, preserved and exploited, or their potential impact assessed.</p>
<p>By its very nature, research in the visual arts is highly complex and varied, often comprising a wide variety of outputs and formats which present researchers, repository managers and institutions with many discipline-specific difficulties. The methods and processes which generate this research are just as varied and complex.&nbsp; Research endeavour in the visual arts relies heavily on the physical artefact: sketchbooks, logbooks, journals, and workbooks.&nbsp; Alongside these data, a wide range of related project documentation and protocols are also created.&nbsp; While technology may offer considerable potential to support the safe storage and preservation of research and related data, and to enhance access, the highly distinctive nature of the visual arts and its research methods also present enormous technical problems with regard to formats, standards, roles and responsibilities, and policies.</p>
<p></p><p><a href="http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue71/garrett-et-al" target="_blank">read more</a></p>issue71feature articleanne spaldingcarlos silvaleigh garrettmarie-therese gramstadtahrccanterbury christ church universitycourtauld institute of artdatacitedccfalmouth universityglasgow school of artgoldsmiths collegehefcejiscnorthumbria universityuk data archiveuniversity for the creative artsuniversity of bathuniversity of birminghamuniversity of edinburghuniversity of essexuniversity of leicesteruniversity of londonuniversity of the arts londonvadskapturkeepitmrcscarletarchivesaugmented realityblogcataloguingcloud computingcurationdatadata managementdata setdigitisationeprintsframeworkhigher educationinfrastructuremetadataoeropen accesspreservationrepositoriesresearchsemantic websoftwarevideoMon, 01 Jul 2013 17:50:23 +0000lisrw2461 at http://www.ariadne.ac.ukDataFinder: A Research Data Catalogue for Oxfordhttp://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue71/rumsey-jefferies
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<p>In 2012 the University of Oxford Research Committee endorsed a university ‘Policy on the management of research data and records’ [<a href="#1">1</a>]. Much of the infrastructure to support this policy is being developed under the Jisc-funded Damaro Project [<a href="#2">2</a>]. The nascent services that underpin the University’s RDM (research data management) infrastructure have been divided into four themes:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue71/rumsey-jefferies" target="_blank">read more</a></p>issue71feature articleneil jefferiessally rumseybodleian librariesdatacitejiscorciduk data archiveuniversity of oxforddmponlineimpact projectaggregationalgorithmapiarchivescataloguingcontrolled vocabulariescurationdatadata citationdata managementdata modeldata setdatabasedigital archivedigital libraryeprintsfedora commonsidentifierinfrastructurejacslinked datametadataoai-pmhopen accessopen archives initiativepasswordspreservationpurlrdfrepositoriesresearchresearch information managementschemasearch technologysemantic websoftwaresolrstandardsuriurlvocabularieswireframexmlThu, 13 Jun 2013 20:23:22 +0000lisrw2446 at http://www.ariadne.ac.ukMotivations for the Development of a Web Resource Synchronisation Frameworkhttp://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue70/lewis-et-al
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<p><a href="/issue70/lewis-et-al#author1">Stuart Lewis</a>, <a href="/issue70/lewis-et-al#author2">Richard Jones</a> and <a href="/issue70/lewis-et-al#author3">Simeon Warner</a> explain some of the motivations behind the development of the ResourceSync Framework.</p>
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<p>This article describes the motivations behind the development of the ResourceSync Framework. The Framework addresses the need to synchronise resources between Web sites. &nbsp;Resources cover a wide spectrum of types, such as metadata, digital objects, Web pages, or data files. &nbsp;There are many scenarios in which the ability to perform some form of synchronisation is required. Examples include aggregators such as Europeana that want to harvest and aggregate collections of resources, or preservation services that wish to archive Web sites as they change.</p>
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<p><a href="/issue70/hydra-2012-11-rpt#author1">Chris Awre</a> reports on the Hydra UK event held on 22 November 2012 at the Library of the London School of Economics.</p>
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<p>Hydra, as described in the opening presentation of this event, is a project initiated in 2008 by the University of Hull, Stanford University, University of Virginia, and DuraSpace to work towards a reusable framework for multi-purpose, multi-functional, multi-institutional repository-enabled solutions for the management of digital content collections [<a href="#1">1</a>]. An initial timeframe for the project of three years had seen all founding institutional partners successfully implement a repository demonstrating these characteristics.&nbsp; Key to the aims of the project has always been to generate wider interest outside the partners to foster not only sustainability in the technology, but also sustainability of the community around this open source development.&nbsp; Hydra has been disseminated through a range of events, particularly through the international Open Repositories conferences [<a href="#2">2</a>], but the sphere of interest in Hydra has now stimulated the holding of specific events in different countries: Hydra UK is one of them.</p>
<p>The Hydra UK event was held on 22 November 2012, kindly hosted by the Library at the London School of Economics.&nbsp; Representatives from institutions across the UK, but also Ireland, Austria and Switzerland, came together to learn about the Hydra Project, and to discuss how Hydra might serve their digital content collection management needs.&nbsp; 29 delegates from 21 institutions were present, representing mostly universities but also the archive, museum and commercial sectors.&nbsp; Five presentations were given on Hydra, focusing on the practical experience of using this framework and how it fits into overall system architectures, and time was also deliberately given over to discussion of more specific topics of interest and to allow delegates the opportunity to voice their requirements.&nbsp; The presentations were:</p>
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<li>Introduction to Hydra</li>
<li>Hydra @ Hull</li>
<li>Hydra @ Glasgow Caledonian University</li>
<li>Hydra @ LSE</li>
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<h2 id="Introduction_to_Hydra">Introduction to Hydra</h2>
<p>Chris Awre from the University of Hull gave the opening presentation.&nbsp; The starting basis for Hydra was mutual recognition by all the founding partners that a repository should be an enabler for managing digital content collections, not a constraint or simply a silo of content.&nbsp; Digital repositories have been put forward and applied as a potential solution for a variety of use cases over the years, and been used at different stages of a content lifecycle.&nbsp;</p>
<p style="text-align: center; "><img alt="LSE Library (Photo courtesy of Simon Lamb, University of Hull.)" src="http://ariadne-media.ukoln.info/grfx/img/issue70-hydra-2012-11-rpt/figure1-hydra-rpt-lse-library.jpg" style="width: 178px; height: 178px;" title="LSE Library (Photo courtesy of Simon Lamb, University of Hull.)" /></p>
<p style="text-align: center; "><strong>Figure 1: LSE Library</strong><br /><small>(Photo courtesy of Simon Lamb, University of Hull.)</small></p>
<p>To avoid producing a landscape of multiple repositories all having to be managed to cover these use cases, the Hydra Project sought to identify a way in which one repository solution could be applied flexibly to meet the requirements of different use cases. The idea of a single repository with multiple points of interaction came into being – Hydra – and the concept of individual Hydra ‘head’ solutions.</p>
<p>The Hydra Project is informed by two main principles:</p>
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<li>No single system can provide the full range of repository-based solutions for a given institution’s needs,<br />o&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; …yet sustainable solutions require a common repository infrastructure.</li>
<li>No single institution can resource the development of a full range of solutions on its own,<br />o&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; …yet each needs the flexibility to tailor solutions to local demands and workflows.</li>
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<p>The Hydra Project has sought to provide the common infrastructure upon which flexible solutions can be built, and shared.</p>
<p>The recognition that no single institution can achieve everything it might want for its repository has influenced the project from the start. &nbsp;To quote an African proverb, ‘If you want to go fast go alone, if you want to go far, go together’. Working together has been vital.&nbsp; To organise this interaction, Hydra has structured itself through three interleaving sub-communities, the Steering Group, the Partners and Developers, as shown by Figure 2.</p>
<p style="text-align: center; "><img alt="Figure 2: Hydra community structure" src="http://ariadne-media.ukoln.info/grfx/img/issue70-hydra-2012-11-rpt/hydra-community-structure-v4.jpg" style="width: 661px; height: 506px;" title="Figure 2: Hydra community structure" /></p>
<p style="text-align: center; "><strong>Figure 2: Hydra community structure</strong></p>
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--><p>The concept of a Hydra Partner has emerged from this model of actively working together, and the project has a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) process for any institution wishing to have its use of, and contribution and commitment to Hydra recognised.&nbsp; Starting with the original four partners in 2008, Hydra now has 11 partners, with two more in the process of joining.&nbsp; All have made valuable contributions and helped to make Hydra better.&nbsp; Hydra partnership is not the only route to involvement, though, and there are many in the Hydra developer community who are adopters of the software, but who have not reached a stage where partnership is appropriate.</p>
<p>The technical implementation of Hydra was supported through early involvement in the project by MediaShelf, a commercial technical consultancy focused on repository solutions.&nbsp; All Hydra software is, though, open source, available under the Apache 2.0 licence, and all software code contributions are managed in this way.&nbsp; The technical implementation is based on a set of core principles that describe how content objects should be structured within the repository, and with an understanding that different content types can be managed using different workflows.&nbsp; Following these principles, Hydra could be implemented in a variety of ways: the technical direction taken by the project is simply the one that suited the partners at the time.</p>
<p>Hydra as currently implemented is built on existing open source components, and the project partners are committed to supporting these over time:</p>
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<li>Fedora: one of the digital repository systems maintained through DuraSpace [<a href="#3">3</a>]</li>
<li>Apache Solr: powerful indexing software now being used in a variety of discovery solutions [<a href="#4">4</a>]</li>
<li>Blacklight: a next-generation discovery interface, which has its own community around it [<a href="#5">5</a>]</li>
<li>Hydra plugin: a collection of components that facilitate workflow in managing digital content [<a href="#6">6</a>]</li>
<li>Solrizer: a component that indexes Fedora-held content into a Solr index</li>
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<p>These components are arranged in the architecture shown in Figure 3.</p>
<p style="text-align: center; "><img alt="Figure 3: Hydra architecture" src="http://ariadne-media.ukoln.info/grfx/img/issue70-hydra-2012-11-rpt/figure3-hydra-architecture-v4.jpg" style="width: 543px; height: 258px;" title="Figure 3: Hydra architecture" /></p>
<p style="text-align: center; "><strong>Figure 3: Hydra architecture</strong></p>
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<p style="text-align: center; "><img alt="Hydra architecture" src="http://ariadne-media.ukoln.info/grfx/img/issue70-hydra-2012-11-rpt/architecture.png" style="width: 547px; height: 262px;" title="Hydra architecture"></p><p style="text-align: center; "><strong>Hydra architecture</strong></p> --><p>A common feature of the last three components in the list above is the use of Ruby on Rails as the coding language and its ability to package up functionality in discrete ‘gems’.&nbsp; This was consciously chosen for Hydra because of its agile programming capabilities, its use of the MVC (Model–View–Controller) structure, and its testing infrastructure.&nbsp; The choice has been validated on a number of occasions as Hydra has developed.&nbsp; However, it was noted that other coding languages and systems could be used to implement Hydra where appropriate.&nbsp; This applies to all the main components, even Fedora.&nbsp; Whilst a powerful and flexible repository solution in its own right, Fedora has proved to be complex to use: Hydra has sought in part to tap this capability through simpler interfaces and interactions.</p>
<p></p><p><a href="http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue70/hydra-2012-11-rpt" target="_blank">read more</a></p>issue70event reportchris awrebbcbodleian librariescalifornia digital libraryduraspaceglasgow caledonian universityjisclondon school of economicssakaistanford universityuniversity of hulluniversity of oxforduniversity of virginiahydrajisc information environmentremap projectapacheapiarchivesauthenticationcataloguingcollection developmentcontent managementdatadata managementdata setdigital archivedigital librarydigital preservationdigital repositoriesdisseminationeprintsfedora commonsframeworkgoogle mapsinfrastructureinstitutional repositorylicencemetadatamultimediaopen sourcepreservationrepositoriesresearchrubysearch technologysharepointsoftwaresolrstreamingvideovleThu, 13 Dec 2012 19:24:07 +0000lisrw2411 at http://www.ariadne.ac.ukKultivating Kultur: Increasing Arts Research Deposithttp://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue68/gramstadt
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<p>Funded by the Deposit strand [<a href="#1">1</a>] JISC Information Environment programme and led by the Visual Arts Data Service (VADS), a Research Centre of the University for the Creative Arts, Kultivate will increase arts research deposit in UK institutional repositories.</p>
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<p><a href="/issue68/hopkinson-zargaryan#author1">Alan Hopkinson</a> and <a href="/issue68/hopkinson-zargaryan#author2">Tigran Zargaryan</a> give an overview of their experience of digitising paper-based materials in the Fundamental Scientific Library of the National Academy of Sciences, Armenia including some of the obstacles encountered during image processing and optical character recognition.</p>
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<!-- start main content --><!-- start main content --><p>Early writing which first appeared as cuneiform protocols and then emerged in manuscript form and as printed materials is currently entering a new stage in its development – in the form of electronic publications.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue68/hopkinson-zargaryan" target="_blank">read more</a></p>issue68feature articlealan hopkinsontigran zargaryanabbyybritish libraryeifliflajisc digital mediamicrosoftmiddlesex universitynational academy of sciencesnational library of armeniastmtasiendangered archives programmeadobealgorithmarchivescontent managementdatadatabasedcmidigital mediadigital repositoriesdigitisationdocument formatdrupaldspacedublin coredublin core metadata initiativedvdeprintsfile formatgraphicsinfrastructurejpegmetadatanational libraryocropen accessopen sourceopen standardoptical character recognitionpreservationrepositoriesresearchresource descriptionschemasoftwarestandardstiffFri, 09 Mar 2012 14:06:59 +0000lisrw2235 at http://www.ariadne.ac.ukEditorial Introduction to Issue 68http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue68/editorial2
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<p><a href="/issue68/editorial2#author1">The editor</a> introduces readers to the content of <em>Ariadne</em> issue 68.</p>
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<p>I am pleased to introduce you to the content of Issue 68, and to have the opportunity to remind you that you have a far larger number of channels into the publication’s content.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue68/editorial2" target="_blank">read more</a></p>issue68editorialrichard wallerbritish libraryjiscmassachusetts institute of technologynational academy of sciencesroyal hollowaysakaiclifdepositmohydraopendoarrepositories support projectrspaggregationarchivesblogcataloguingcontent managementcopyrightcreative commonsdatadata citationdata setdigital repositoriesdigitisationdisseminationdoieprintsfacebookfedora commonsfoiframeworkhigher educationictidentifierinformation retrievalinstant messaginginstitutional repositorylibrary management systemslucenemetadatams wordmultimediaocroeropacopen sourceopenurlpreservationrepositoriesresearchresource descriptionresource discoveryrsssearch technologysecond lifesfxsharepointsoftwaresolrstandardisationsword protocoltaxonomytwittervufindweb 2.0wordpressxmlMon, 12 Mar 2012 15:17:06 +0000lisrw2322 at http://www.ariadne.ac.ukEditorial Introduction to Issue 67: Changes Afoothttp://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue67/editorial
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<p><a href="/issue67/editorial#author1">Richard Waller</a> introduces Ariadne issue 67.</p>
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<!-- start main content --><!-- start main content --><p>For readers who might have been wondering, I shall resist Mark Twain's remark about reports of his demise being exaggerated, and reassure you that while <em>Ariadne</em> has been undergoing changes to the way in which it will be delivered to the Web, it has been business as usual in the matter of the content, as you will see from the paragraphs that follow. Issue 67, while currently not looking any different, is in the process of being migrated to a new platform developed to enhance functionality and give a more user-friendly look and feel to the publication.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue67/editorial" target="_blank">read more</a></p>issue67editorialrichard wallerbectajiscjisc techdismeta-netukolnuniversity of bathuniversity of derbydevcsihomer multitextmobile campus assistantmymobilebristolwikipediaaccessibilityarchivesbibliographic datablogcataloguingcurationdatadigital librarydigitisationelluminateeprintsframeworkgeospatial datagisidentifierinfrastructureinteroperabilitylibrarythingmetadatamobilenatural language processingpreservationprogramming languagerepositoriesresearchrsssemantic websoftwarestandardstaggingtwitteruimaulccurnusabilityweb 2.0web serviceswebinarSun, 03 Jul 2011 23:00:00 +0000editor1618 at http://www.ariadne.ac.ukFrom Link Rot to Web Sanctuary: Creating the Digital Educational Resource Archive (DERA)http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue67/scaife
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<p><a href="/issue67/scaife#author1">Bernard M Scaife</a> describes how an innovative use of the EPrints repository software is helping to preserve official documents from the Web.</p>
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<!-- start main content --><!-- start main content --><p>When I started as Technical Services Librarian at the Institute of Education (IOE) in September 2009, one of the first tasks I was given was to do something about all the broken links in the catalogue. Link rot [<a href="#1">1</a>] is the bane of the Systems Librarian's life and I was well aware that you had to run fast to stand still.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue67/scaife" target="_blank">read more</a></p>issue67feature articlebernard m scaifebbcbectagooglejiscnational library of australiaoaithe national archivesuk data archiveuniversity of londonuniversity of southamptonarchivesbibliographic datacataloguingcollection developmentcontent managementcopyrightcreative commonsdatadata miningdigital preservationdigitisationdspaceeprintsfedora commonshigher educationhtmlidentifierinfrastructureinteroperabilitylcshlibrary management systemslicencemetadatams wordmultimedianational libraryoai-pmhopen accesspreservationprovenancerepositoriesresearchschemasearch technologysoftwarethesaurusulccurlxmlSun, 03 Jul 2011 23:00:00 +0000editor1625 at http://www.ariadne.ac.ukCharacterising and Preserving Digital Repositories: File Format Profileshttp://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue66/hitchcock-tarrant
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<p><a href="/issue66/hitchcock-tarrant#author1">Steve Hitchcock</a> and <a href="/issue66/hitchcock-tarrant#author2">David Tarrant</a> show how file format profiles, the starting point for preservation plans and actions, can also be used to reveal the fingerprints of emerging types of institutional repositories.</p>
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<p><a href="http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue66/hitchcock-tarrant" target="_blank">read more</a></p>issue66feature articledavid tarrantsteve hitchcockamazongoogleharvard universityjiscmicrosoftmpegthe national archivesuniversity of illinoisuniversity of northamptonuniversity of southamptonuniversity of the arts londonwellcome libraryjisc information environmentkeepitwikipediaaccessibilityadobearchivesbibliographic datablogcloud computingcsscsvcurationdatadata managementdatabasedigital curationdigital preservationdigital repositoriesdisseminationdocument formatdroideprintsfile formatflashflash videoframeworkgifgraphicshtmlhypertextidentifierinstitutional repositoryjavajpeglatexlinked datametadatampeg-1open accessopen sourcephotoshopphpplain textpreservationquicktimerepositoriesresearchschemasemantic websoftwarestandardsvector graphicsvideoweb 2.0wikiwindowswindows mediaxmlxml schemaSun, 30 Jan 2011 00:00:00 +0000editor1608 at http://www.ariadne.ac.ukInternational Digital Curation Conference 2010http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue66/idcc-2010-rpt
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<p><a href="/issue66/idcc-2010-rpt#author1">Alex Ball</a> reports on the 6th International Digital Curation Conference, held on 7-8 December 2010 in Chicago.</p>
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<!-- version v2: final edits after author review 2011-01-12 REW --><!-- version v2: final edits after author review 2011-01-12 REW --><p>The International Digital Curation Conference has been held annually by the Digital Curation Centre (DCC) [<a href="#1">1</a>] since 2005, quickly establishing a reputation for high-quality presentations and papers. So much so that, as co-chair Allen Renear explained in his opening remarks, after attending the 2006 Conference in Glasgow [<a href="#2">2</a>] delegates from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) offered to bring the event to Chicago.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue66/idcc-2010-rpt" target="_blank">read more</a></p>issue66event reportalex ballcnicoalition for networked informationcornell universitydatacitedccindiana universityjohns hopkins universityleiden universitymassachusetts institute of technologymichigan state universitynational library of australianational science foundationresearch information networkrutgers universityukolnuniversity of arizonauniversity of bathuniversity of california berkeleyuniversity of cambridgeuniversity of chicagouniversity of edinburghuniversity of illinoisuniversity of oxforduniversity of sheffielduniversity of southamptondatasharei2s2idmbmyexperimentsagecitesudamihaggregationarchivesarkauthenticationblogcataloguingcollection developmentcontent managementcurationdatadata citationdata managementdata modeldata setdatabasedigital curationdigital librarye-scienceeprintsframeworkidentifierinfrastructureintellectual propertyinteroperabilityirodslinked datalinuxmetadatamobilenational libraryontologiesopen accessopen dataoperating systempersistent identifierpreservationpreservation metadataprovenancerdfrepositoriesresearchresource descriptionsearch technologysemantic websharepointsoftwarestandardstaggingteitext miningtwittervideovirtual research environmentvisualisationwikiwindowsxmlSun, 30 Jan 2011 00:00:00 +0000editor1611 at http://www.ariadne.ac.ukWhy UK Further and Higher Education Needs Local Software Developershttp://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue65/mahey-walk
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<p><a href="/issue65/mahey-walk#author1">Mahendra Mahey</a> and <a href="/issue65/mahey-walk#author2">Paul Walk</a> discuss the work of the Developer Community Supporting Innovation (DevCSI) Project which focuses on building capacity for software developers in UK Further and Higher Education to support innovation in the sector.</p>
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<p>Software developers are important to Further (FE) and Higher Education (HE). They are needed to develop and implement local FEI (Further Education Institution) and HEI (Higher Education Institution) solutions, to build e-infrastructure, and to innovate and develop ideas and prototypes that can be exploited by others. They also play an important part in the development and uptake of open standards and interoperability.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue65/mahey-walk" target="_blank">read more</a></p>issue65feature articlemahendra maheypaul walkbbcgoogleharvard universityjiscoracleukolnuniversity of bathuniversity of londondevcsilist8daccessibilityblogdatadigital repositoriesdisruptive innovationeprintsfurther educationgoogle docshigher educationinfrastructureinteroperabilitymetadatapythonrdfrdfarepositoriesresearchsoftwareulccvideoFri, 29 Oct 2010 23:00:00 +0000editor1587 at http://www.ariadne.ac.ukRepository Fringe 2010http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue65/repos-fringe-2010-rpt
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<p><a href="/issue65/repos-fringe-2010-rpt#author1">Martin Donnelly</a> (and friends) report on the Repository Fringe "unconference" held at the National e-Science Centre in Edinburgh, Scotland, over 2-3 September 2010.</p>
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<p>2010 was the third year of Repository Fringe, and slightly more formally organised than its antecedents, with an increased number of discursive presentations and less in the way of organised chaos! The proceedings began on Wednesday 1 September with a one-day, pre-event SHERPA/RoMEO API Workshop [<a href="#1">1</a>] run by the Repositories Support Project team.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue65/repos-fringe-2010-rpt" target="_blank">read more</a></p>issue65event reportmartin donnellycetisdccduraspaceedinagooglejiscopen universitysherpaukolnuniversity of cambridgeuniversity of edinburghuniversity of glasgowuniversity of hulluniversity of southamptonuniversity of st andrewsaddressing historycrispooldatasharedepositmohydrajorummementorepommanrepositrepositories support projectromeosharegeosneepwikipediaaggregationapiarchivesbibliographic datablogcontent managementcontent negotiationcsvcurationdatadata managementdata setdatabasedigital curationdigital librarydigital preservationdigitisationdisseminationdoidspaceeprintsfedora commonsfile formatframeworkgeospatial datagisgoogle mapshashtaghtmlhypertextidentifierinfrastructureinstitutional repositoryipadkmllearning objectsmashupmetadatanational libraryoerontologiesopen accessopen sourcepreservationrepositoriesresearchrsssearch technologysocial networkssolrstandardstaggingtwitterurivideovisualisationwordpressyahoo pipesFri, 29 Oct 2010 23:00:00 +0000editor1592 at http://www.ariadne.ac.ukRepository Software Comparison: Building Digital Library Infrastructure at LSEhttp://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue64/fay
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<p><a href="/issue64/fay#author1">Ed Fay</a> presents a comparison of repository software that was carried out at LSE in support of digital library infrastructure development.</p>
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<p><a href="/issue64/salo#author1">Dorothea Salo</a> examines how library systems and procedures need to change to accommodate research data.</p>
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<p>Eager to prove their relevance among scholars leaving print behind, libraries have participated vocally in the last half-decade's conversation about digital research data. On the surface, libraries would seem to have much human and technological infrastructure ready-constructed to repurpose for data: digital library platforms and institutional repositories may appear fit for purpose. However, unless libraries understand the salient characteristics of research data, and how they do and do not fit with library processes and infrastructure, they run the risk of embarrassing missteps as they come to grips with the data challenge.</p>
<p>Whether managing research data is 'the new special collections,'[<a href="#1">1</a>] a new form of regular academic-library collection development, or a brand-new library specialty, the possibilities have excited a great deal of talk, planning, and educational opportunity in a profession seeking to expand its boundaries.</p>
<p>Faced with shrinking budgets and staffs, library administrators may well be tempted to repurpose existing technology infrastructure and staff to address the data curation challenge. Existing digital libraries and institutional repositories seem on the surface to be a natural fit for housing digital research data. Unfortunately, significant mismatches exist between research data and library digital warehouses, as well as the processes and procedures librarians typically use to fill those warehouses. Repurposing warehouses and staff for research data is therefore neither straightforward nor simple; in some cases, it may even prove impossible.</p>
<h2 id="Characteristics_of_Research_Data">Characteristics of Research Data</h2>
<p>What do we know about research data? What are its salient characteristics with respect to stewardship?</p>
<h3 id="Size_and_Scope">Size and Scope</h3>
<p>Perhaps the commonest mental image of research data is terabytes of information pouring out of the merest twitch of the Large Hadron Collider Project. So-called 'Big Data' both captures the imagination of and creates sheer terror in the practical librarian or technologist. 'Small data,' however, may prove to be the bigger problem: data emerging from individual researchers and labs, especially those with little or no access to grants, or a hyperlocal research focus. Though each small-data producer produces only a trickle of data compared to the like of the Large Hadron Collider Project, the tens of thousands of small-data producers in aggregate may well produce as much data (or more, measured in bytes) as their Big Data counterparts [<a href="#2">2</a>]. Securely and reliably storing and auditing this amount of data is a serious challenge. The burgeoning 'small data' store means that institutions without local Big Data projects are by no means exempt from large-scale storage considerations.</p>
<p>Small data also represents a serious challenge in terms of human resources. Best practices instituted in a Big Data project reach all affected scientists quickly and completely; conversely, a small amount of expert intervention in such a project pays immense dividends. Because of the great numbers of individual scientists and labs producing small data, however, immensely more consultations and consultants are necessary to bring practices and the resulting data to an acceptable standard.</p>
<h3 id="Variability">Variability</h3>
<p>Digital research data comes in every imaginable shape and form. Even narrowing the universe of research data to 'image' yields everything from scans of historical glass negative photographs to digital microscope images of unicellular organisms taken hundreds at a time at varying depths of field so that the organism can be examined in three dimensions. The tools that researchers use naturally shape the resulting data. When the tool is proprietary, unfortunately, so may be the file format that it produced. When that tool does not include long-term data viability as a development goal, the data it produces are often neither interoperable nor preservable.</p>
<p>A major consequence of the diversity of forms and formats of digital research data is a concomitant diversity in desired interactions. The biologist with a 3-D stack of microscope images interacts very differently with those images than does a manuscript scholar trying to extract the underlying half-erased text from a palimpsest. These varying affordances <em>must</em> be respected by dissemination platforms if research data are to enjoy continued use.</p>
<p>One important set of interactions involves actual changes to data. Many sorts of research data are considerably less usable in their raw state than after they have had filters or algorithms or other processing performed on them. Others welcome correction, or are refined by comparison with other datasets. Two corollaries emerge: first, that planning and acting for data stewardship must take place throughout the research process, rather than being an add-on at the end; and second, that digital preservation systems designed to steward only final, unchanging materials can only fail faced with real-world datasets and data-use practices.</p>
<p></p><p><a href="http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue64/salo" target="_blank">read more</a></p>issue64feature articledorothea salocalifornia digital librarydccgoogleoaiuniversity of wisconsinhydraalgorithmapiarchivesbibliographic databig datablogcollection developmentcookiecurationdatadata managementdata setdatabasedigital curationdigital librarydigital preservationdigitisationdisseminationdrupaldspacedublin coreeprintsfedora commonsfile formatflickrgoogle docsinfrastructureinstitutional repositoryinteroperabilitylibrary management systemslinked datamarcmetadatamodsoai-pmhopen sourcepreservationrdfrepositoriesresearchsearch technologysoftwarestandardisationstandardssword protocolwikixmlThu, 29 Jul 2010 23:00:00 +0000editor1566 at http://www.ariadne.ac.ukOpen Repositories 2010http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue64/or-10-rpt
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<p><a href="/issue64/or-10-rpt#author1">Philip Hunter</a> and <a href="/issue64/or-10-rpt#author2">Robin Taylor</a> report on the Open Repositories Conference held in Madrid between 6 -9 July 2010 at the Palacio de Congresos.</p>
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<p>The air temperature in Madrid was around 37ºC when the Edinburgh contingent arrived in mid-afternoon on 5 July. The excellent air-conditioned Metro took us all the way into town - about 14km - for only 2 Euros. We were told later that the temperature during the preceding week had been about 21ºC, but by the end of the conference week we were enjoying 39ºC. The conference venue turned out to be opposite the Santiago Bernabeu stadium (home of Real Madrid), in Paseo de la Castellana.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue64/or-10-rpt" target="_blank">read more</a></p>issue64event reportphilip hunterrobin taylorcornell universityduraspaceelseviergooglemicrosoftorciduniversity of edinburghuniversity of londonuniversity of oxforduniversity of southamptondepositmodevcsiblogcurationdatadatabasedigital librarydigital repositoriesdspaceeprintsequellafacebookfedora commonsframeworkgoogle analyticshigher educationidentifierinstitutional repositorymetadatamicrosoft officeopen accessrepositoriesresearchresearch information managementsearch technologysoftwaresolrstandardssword protocoltaggingThu, 29 Jul 2010 23:00:00 +0000editor1571 at http://www.ariadne.ac.ukLearning How to Play Nicely: Repositories and CRIShttp://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue64/wrn-repos-2010-05-rpt
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<p><a href="/issue64/wrn-repos-2010-05-rpt#author1">Nick Sheppard</a> reports on the event examining integrated, systemic approaches to research information management organised by the Welsh Repository Network and supported by JISC and ARMA at Leeds Metropolitan University, in May 2010.</p>
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<p>More than 60 delegates convened at the Rose Bowl in Leeds on 7 May 2010 for this event to explore the developing relationship and overlap between Open Access research repositories and so called 'CRISs' – Current Research Information Systems – that are increasingly being implemented at universities.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue64/wrn-repos-2010-05-rpt" target="_blank">read more</a></p>issue64event reportnick sheppardeurocrishefcejiscleeds metropolitan universityoaiuniversity of aberdeenuniversity of glasgowuniversity of st andrewsuniversity of sunderlandwellcome trustwrnarchivesbibliographic datablogcerifcopyrightdatadata managementdata modeldatabasedspaceeprintsframeworkguidhigher educationidentifierinfrastructureinstitutional repositoryinteroperabilityldaplinked datametadataoai-pmhopen accesspreservationraerepositoriesresearchresearch information managementsemantic websoftwarestandardsThu, 29 Jul 2010 23:00:00 +0000editor1575 at http://www.ariadne.ac.ukE-books and E-content 2010: Data As Contenthttp://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue64/ebooks-ucl-2010-rpt
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<p><a href="http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue64/ebooks-ucl-2010-rpt" target="_blank">read more</a></p>issue64event reportbrian whalleybritish librarydatacitegooglejiscqueens university belfastresearch information networkserials solutionsuniversity college londonuniversity of manchesteruniversity of oxforduniversity of southamptonpeg-boardsudamiharchivescloud computingdatadata citationdata managementdata miningdata setdatabasedoiebookeprintsfedora commonsflashfoiframeworkgoogle scholarhigher educationidentifierinformation retrievalinfrastructuremetadatamp3multimedianational libraryoggpreservationrdfrepositoriesresearchresource descriptionsearch technologysemantic websparqlstreamingtext miningvideoThu, 29 Jul 2010 23:00:00 +0000editor1577 at http://www.ariadne.ac.ukTowards a Toolkit for Implementing Application Profileshttp://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue62/chaudhri-et-al
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<p><a href="/issue62/chaudhri-et-al#author1">Talat Chaudhri</a>, <a href="/issue62/chaudhri-et-al#author2">Julian Cheal</a>, <a href="/issue62/chaudhri-et-al#author3">Richard Jones</a>, <a href="/issue62/chaudhri-et-al#author4">Mahendra Mahey</a> and <a href="/issue62/chaudhri-et-al#author5">Emma Tonkin</a> propose a user-driven methodology for the iterative development, testing and implementation of Dublin Core Application Profiles in diverse repository software environments.</p>
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<p><a href="/issue62/fedora-eu-rpt#author1">Chris Awre</a> reports on the first coming together of two regional user groups for the Fedora digital repository system, hosted by the University of Oxford in December 2009.</p>
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<!-- v2. edits from author incorporated into this version - 2010-02-12-22-47 rew --><!-- v2. edits from author incorporated into this version - 2010-02-12-22-47 rew --><p>The Fedora digital repository system [<a href="#1">1</a>] (as opposed to the Fedora Linux distribution, with which there is no connection) is an open source solution for the management of all types of digital content. Its development is managed through DuraSpace [<a href="#2">2</a>], the same organisation that now oversees DSpace, and carried out by developers around the world. The developers, alongside the extensive body of Fedora users, form the community that sustains Fedora.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue62/fedora-eu-rpt" target="_blank">read more</a></p>issue62event reportchris awrebbcduraspaceieeejisckings college londonstanford universitytechnical university of denmarkuniversity of edinburghuniversity of hulluniversity of oxforduniversity of southamptonuniversity of virginiabrildatasharehydraidmbcloud computingcontent managementdatadata managementdatabasedigital repositoriesdspacee-researche-scienceeprintsfedora commonsflickrframeworkgeospatial datagisinfrastructureinstitutional repositorylinuxmetadatamobileopen sourceportalqr coderdbmsrdfrepositoriesresearchsearch technologysoftwareusabilityvirtual research environmentwikixmlyoutubeSat, 30 Jan 2010 00:00:00 +0000editor1531 at http://www.ariadne.ac.ukHow to Publish Data Using Overlay Journals: The OJIMS Projecthttp://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue61/callaghan-et-al
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<p><a href="/issue61/callaghan-et-al#author1">Sarah Callaghan</a>, <a href="/issue61/callaghan-et-al#author2">Sam Pepler</a>, <a href="/issue61/callaghan-et-al#author3">Fiona Hewer</a>, <a href="/issue61/callaghan-et-al#author4">Paul Hardaker</a> and <a href="/issue61/callaghan-et-al#author5">Alan Gadian</a> describe the implementation details that can be used to create overlay journals for data publishing in the meteorological sciences.</p>
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<p>The previous article about the Overlay Journal Infrastructure for Meteorological Sciences (OJIMS) Project [<a href="#1">1</a>] dealt with an introduction to the concept of overlay journals and their potential impact on the meteorological sciences. It also discussed the business cases and requirements that must be met for overlay journals to become operational as data publications.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue61/callaghan-et-al" target="_blank">read more</a></p>issue61feature articlealan gadianfiona hewerpaul hardakersam peplersarah callaghanbadcjiscncasoairoyal meteorological societyuniversity of leedsojimsopendoarriojasneeparchivesbrowsercopyrightdatadata managementdata setdatabasedisseminationdublin coreeprintsflickrframeworkidentifierinfrastructuremetadataoai-pmhopen accessopen archives initiativeopen sourcepodcastpreservationprogramming languagepythonrdfrepositoriesresearchschemasearch technologysoftwarestandardsvideoweb appweb browserwikixmlxml schemaxsltFri, 30 Oct 2009 00:00:00 +0000editor1508 at http://www.ariadne.ac.ukInstitutional Repositories for Creative and Applied Arts Research: The Kultur Projecthttp://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue60/gray
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<p>Those involved in Higher Education (HE) may have started to sense the approach of Institutional Repositories (IRs). Leaving aside the unfortunate nomenclature, IRs are becoming a fact of life in many educational institutions. The Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) has invested £14million in the Repositories and Preservation Programme [<a href="#1">1</a>] and the recent Repositories and Preservation Programme Meeting in Birmingham [<a href="#2">2</a>] celebrated the end of over 40 individual repository projects under the Start Up and Enhancement [<a href="#3">3</a>] strand.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue60/gray" target="_blank">read more</a></p>issue60feature articleandrew graygooglejiscmonash universityuniversity for the creative artsuniversity of southamptonuniversity of the arts londonvadsarchivesaviblogcopyrightdatadigital repositoriesdigitisationdisseminationeprintsflashframeworkftpgoogle docshigher educationinstitutional repositoryintellectual propertyjpegmetadatamp3multimediaopen accessphotoshoppreservationprovenancequicktimeraerepositoriesresearchschemasoftwarestandardsstreamingtiffurlusabilityvideowavwindowswindows mediaWed, 29 Jul 2009 23:00:00 +0000editor1489 at http://www.ariadne.ac.ukOpen Repositories 2009http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue60/or-09-rpt
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<p><a href="/issue60/or-09-rpt#author1">Adrian Stevenson</a> reports on the four-day annual Open Repositories conference held at Georgia Tech in Atlanta, GA, USA over 18 - 21 May 2009.</p>
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<p>I recently attended the annual Open Repositories 2009 Conference [<a href="#1">1</a>] in Atlanta, Georgia which hosted 326 delegates from 23 countries. For myself, as the SWORD [<a href="#2">2</a>] Project Manager, the event proved to be very worthwhile. My colleague Julie Allinson and I were both able to give a plenary presentation on the first day and a half-day workshop on the final day.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue60/or-09-rpt" target="_blank">read more</a></p>issue60event reportadrian stevensoncetisduraspacegeorgia institute of technologyjiscmassachusetts institute of technologymicrosoftnational library of walesoaiukolnuniversity of bathuniversity of illinoisuniversity of southamptonuniversity of yorkrepositories research teamsherpa romeosword projectadobeaggregationapiarchivesatombibliographic datablogcloud computingcopyrightcreative commonsdatadata modeldigital librarydigital repositoriesdigitisationdisseminationdspaceeprintsfacebookfedora commonsflickrhtmlinstitutional repositoryinternet explorerinteroperabilityjpegmetadatametsnational libraryoai-oreoai-pmhontologiesopen archives initiativeopen sourcerdfrepositoriesresearchsemantic websoftwarestandardisationsword protocoltwitterurlxmlzipWed, 29 Jul 2009 23:00:00 +0000editor1498 at http://www.ariadne.ac.ukEncouraging More Open Educational Resources With Southampton's EdSharehttp://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue59/morris
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<p><a href="/issue59/morris#author1">Debra Morris</a> describes the EdSpace Institutional Exemplar Project and the early development of EdShare for sharing learning and teaching materials within and beyond the institution.</p>
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<!-- Version 3: Accommodating new reference from Debra Morris and ++1 reference list; 20090611 REW --><!-- Version 3: Accommodating new reference from Debra Morris and ++1 reference list; 20090611 REW --><p>The University of Southampton has around 22,000 students across six campuses: five in the city of Southampton and one in Winchester. It is a broad-based, research-intensive institution, a member of the Russell Group of UK Universities.</p>
<p>The University comprises three Faculties: Faculty of Engineering, Science and Maths; Faculty of Medicine, Health and Life Sciences, and the Faculty of Law, Arts and Social Sciences.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue59/morris" target="_blank">read more</a></p>issue59feature articledebra morrisblackboardcilipgoogleieeejiscuniversity of southamptonedspacejorumaccessibilitybibliometricsblackboard learning systemcontent managementcopyrightcreative commonscuratione-learningeprintsfacebookflickrframeworkinfrastructureintellectual propertymanaged learning environmentmetadataoeropen accessopen sourceportalrepositoriesresearchsearch technologysoftwaretaggingurlusabilityvleweb 2.0webctwikiyoutubeWed, 29 Apr 2009 23:00:00 +0000editor1468 at http://www.ariadne.ac.ukThree Perspectives on the Evolving Infrastructure of Institutional Research Repositories in Europehttp://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue59/vernooy-gerritsen-et-al
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<p><a href="/issue59/vernooy-gerritsen-et-al#author1">Marjan Vernooy-Gerritsen</a>, <a href="/issue59/vernooy-gerritsen-et-al#author2">Gera Pronk</a> and <a href="/issue59/vernooy-gerritsen-et-al#author3">Maurits van der Graaf</a> report on the most significant results from two surveys conducted to provide an overview of repositories with research output in the European Union.</p>
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<p>Since 2006, the EU-sponsored DRIVER Project has aimed to build an interoperable, trusted and long-term repository infrastructure. As part of the DRIVER Project, a survey was carried out in order to obtain an overview of repositories with research output in the European Union in 2006 [<a href="#1">1</a>]. This study was updated by an expanded survey in 2008, in which 178 institutional research repositories [<a href="#2">2</a>] from 22 European countries participated. In this article we will present the most important results [<a href="#3">3</a>].</p>
<p><a href="http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue59/vernooy-gerritsen-et-al" target="_blank">read more</a></p>issue59feature articlegera pronkmarjan vernooy-gerritsenmaurits van der graafgoogleloughborough universityoaisurffoundationgnuopendoaraccessibilityarchivescataloguingcopyrightdatadata setdigital repositoriesdspaceeprintsfedora commonsgoogle scholaridentifierinfrastructureinstitutional repositoryinteroperabilitymetadataoai-pmhopen accesspersistent identifierpersonalisationrepositoriesresearchsearch technologysoftwareurlvideoWed, 29 Apr 2009 23:00:00 +0000editor1472 at http://www.ariadne.ac.ukAssessing FRBR in Dublin Core Application Profileshttp://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue58/chaudhri
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<p><a href="/issue58/chaudhri#author1">Talat Chaudhri</a> makes a detailed assessment of the FRBR structure of the Dublin Core Application Profiles funded by JISC.</p>
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<p>Efforts to create standard metadata records for resources in digital repositories have hitherto relied for the most part on the simple standard schema published by the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI) [<a href="#1">1</a>], the Dublin Core Metadata Element Set, more commonly known as 'simple Dublin Core' [<a href="#2">2</a>].</p>
<p><a href="http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue58/chaudhri" target="_blank">read more</a></p>issue58feature articletalat chaudhrijiscoaiukolnuniversity of bathuniversity of warwickgeospatial application profileimages application profilelmaptbmapapplication profilebibliographic datacataloguingcopyrightdatadata modeldcapdcmidigital repositoriesdocdomain modeldspacedublin coredublin core metadata initiativeeprintsfile formatfrbrgeospatial datagisidentifierinteroperabilitymetadatametadata modelnamespaceoai-pmhopen accessrdfrelax ngrepositoriesresearchschemascholarly works application profilesearch technologysimple dublin coresoftwarestandardsurlvideovocabulariesxmlFri, 30 Jan 2009 00:00:00 +0000editor1452 at http://www.ariadne.ac.ukdev8D: JISC Developer Happiness Dayshttp://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue58/jisc-dev8d-rpt
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<p><a href="/issue58/jisc-dev8d-rpt#author1">Julian Cheal</a> reports on the 5-day JISC's Developer Happiness Days event held at Birckbeck College, London over 16 - 21 February 2009.</p>
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<p>Firstly some background as to why dev8D came about. David Flanders (JISC) and Ben O'Steen (Oxford University Library Services) over the years have attended many conferences: what they found were that the places and talks from which they benefited most were outside the programmed seminars and presentations. It was during conversations between sessions at these events with other developers, managers, delegates that they felt learned most.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue58/jisc-dev8d-rpt" target="_blank">read more</a></p>issue58event reportjulian chealbbcbritish museumjiscmicrosoftopen universityukolnuniversity of bathuniversity of liverpooluniversity of oxforduniversity of southern queenslandblogdatadspaceeprintsfedora commonsfirefoxhigher educationinteroperabilityjsonopen sourceprogramming languagepythonrepositoriesrssscreencastsearch technologysoftwaretwitterurlvideoyoutubeFri, 30 Jan 2009 00:00:00 +0000editor1456 at http://www.ariadne.ac.ukA Bug's Life?: How Metaphors from Ecology Can Articulate the Messy Details of Repository Interactionshttp://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue57/robertson-et-al
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<p><a href="/issue57/robertson-et-al#author1">R. John Robertson</a>, <a href="/issue57/robertson-et-al#author2">Mahendra Mahey</a> and <a href="/issue57/robertson-et-al#author3">Phil Barker</a> introduce work investigating an alternative model of repository and service interaction.</p>
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<h2 id="Visions">Visions</h2>
<p>In 'Lost in the IE', published in the last issue of <em>Ariadne</em> and in subsequent discussion on various blogs [<a href="#1">1</a>], [<a href="#2">2</a>] there has some thoughtful reflection on the vision of the JISC Information Environment (IE), its architecture and standards, the role of the IE and the role of 'that diagram' [<a href="#3">3</a>].</p>
<p><a href="http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue57/robertson-et-al" target="_blank">read more</a></p>issue57feature articlemahendra maheyphil barkerr. john robertsoncetisd-lib magazinejiscoaisherpaukolnuniversity of bathuniversity of strathclydejisc information environmentrepositories research teamarchivesbibliographic datablogbpmnbusiness process modellingcreative commonsdigital librarydisseminationdspacedublin coree-learningeprintsfedora commonsflickridentifierinstitutional repositoryinternet explorermetadataoai-pmhopen accesspreservationrepositoriesresearchsocial networkssoftwaresword protocolumlweb 2.0Thu, 30 Oct 2008 00:00:00 +0000editor1432 at http://www.ariadne.ac.ukOAI-ORE, PRESERV2 and Digital Preservationhttp://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue57/rumsey-osteen
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<p><a href="/issue57/rumsey-osteen#author1">Sally Rumsey</a> and <a href="/issue57/rumsey-osteen#author2">Ben O'Steen</a> describe OAI-ORE and how it can contribute to digital preservation activities.</p>
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<p>The new framework for the description and exchange of aggregations of Web resources, OAI-ORE, had its European release in April 2008 [<a href="#1">1</a>]. Amongst its practical uses, OAI-ORE has a role to play in digital preservation and continued access to files. This article describes the basic outline of the framework and how it can support the PRESERV2 project digital preservation model of provision of preservation services and interoperability for digital repositories.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue57/rumsey-osteen" target="_blank">read more</a></p>issue57feature articleben osteensally rumseyjiscoaithe national archivesuniversity of oxfordbriipreservaggregationarchivescurationdatadata managementdata miningdcmidigital preservationdigital record object identificationdigital repositoriesdisseminationdroiddspaceeprintsfedora commonsframeworkidentifierinfrastructureinstitutional repositoryinteroperabilitymetadataoai-oreoai-pmhontologiesopen archives initiativepreservationprovenancerdfrepositoriesresearchresource descriptionsearch technologysemantic websoftwarestandardsuriurlvideovocabulariesweb browserweb resourcesweb storagexmlThu, 30 Oct 2008 00:00:00 +0000editor1435 at http://www.ariadne.ac.ukSun Preservation and Archive Special Interest Group: May 2008 Meetinghttp://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue56/pasig-2008-05-rpt
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<p><a href="/issue56/pasig-2008-05-rpt#author1">Vicky Mays</a> and <a href="/issue56/pasig-2008-05-rpt#author2">Ian Dolphin</a> review the Sun Preservation and Archiving Special Interest Group (PASIG) meeting held in San Francisco in May 2008.</p>
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<p>The third meeting of Sun's Preservation and Archiving Special Interest Group took place in San Francisco in May. The event, the third PASIG meeting in the last year, drew around 180 participants from Australasia, Asia, Europe and North America to discuss a broad range of issues surrounding digital repositories. Presentations ranged from geographically or community-themed high-level perspectives of repository- related activity, through to detailed technical analysis and reports of development activity at an institutional or project level.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue56/pasig-2008-05-rpt" target="_blank">read more</a></p>issue56event reportian dolphinvicky maysamazoncalifornia digital librarycoalition for networked informationgooglejiscnational library of new zealandpasigporticostanford universitysun microsystemsuniversity of hulluniversity of oxfordelectronic ephemeraadobearchivesblogcloud computingcurationdatadata managementdigital archivedigital asset managementdigital librarydigital preservationdigital repositoriesdigitisationdspaceeprintsfedora commonsflickrframeworkhigher educationidentifierinfrastructurelearning objectsmp3national libraryopen accessopen sourcepreservationrepositoriesresearchresource discoverysoftwareweb 2.0Tue, 29 Jul 2008 23:00:00 +0000editor1418 at http://www.ariadne.ac.ukOpen Repositories 2008http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue56/or-08-rpt
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<p><a href="/issue56/or-08-rpt#author1">Mahendra Mahey</a> reports on the third international Open Repositories 2008 Conference, held at the School of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton in April 2008.</p>
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<p>This was the third international Open Repositories Conference, the previous two being held in 2007, San Antonio, Texas [<a href="#1">1</a>] and in 2006, Sydney [<a href="#2">2</a>], so Europe was the third continent to host the event. Southampton was gloriously sunny for the five days of the conference (1-4 April), so there was no need to use the disposable plastic macs that were provided in the delegate bags.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue56/or-08-rpt" target="_blank">read more</a></p>issue56event reportmahendra maheycornell universityisojiscnational library of australiaoairutgers universitytilburg universityukolnuniversity of bathuniversity of cambridgeuniversity of oxforduniversity of southamptonuniversity of yorkjisc information environmentaggregationapiarchivesatombibliographic datablogcontent packagingcopyrightdatadata modeldata setdigital curationdigital preservationdigital repositoriesdrmdspaceeprintsfacebookfedora commonsflickrframeworkgraphicshandle systemicalendaridentifierinstitutional repositoryintellectual propertyinteroperabilitymashupmetadatametsnational libraryoai-oreopen accessopen archives initiativeopen sourcepersistent identifierplonepreservationrepositoriesresearchrubysearch technologysocial networkssoftwarestandardssword protocolsyndicationvideoweb servicesxmlTue, 29 Jul 2008 23:00:00 +0000editor1419 at http://www.ariadne.ac.ukSouth African Repositories: Bridging Knowledge Divideshttp://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue55/vandeventer-pienaar
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<p><a href="/issue55/vandeventer-pienaar#author1">Martie van Deventer</a> and <a href="/issue55/vandeventer-pienaar#author2">Heila Pienaar</a> provide us with background to recent South African repository initiatives and detail an example of knowledge transfer from one institution to another.</p>
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<p>Knowledge exchange is critical for development. 'Bridging the knowledge divide' does not only refer to the North-South divide. It also refers to the divide between richer and poorer countries within the same region as well as to the divide between larger and smaller organisations within one country. Lastly it refers to the divide between those individuals who have access to an environment that allows for rapid knowledge creation and those less fortunate.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue55/vandeventer-pienaar" target="_blank">read more</a></p>issue55feature articleheila pienaarmartie van deventerandrew w mellon foundationarleiflgoogleiflasherpauniversity of pretoriaopendoarunisaarchivesauthenticationbibliographic databorn digitalcontent managementcopyrightdatadatabasedigital librarydigital preservationdigital repositoriesdigitisationdisseminationdspacedublin coree-researche-scienceelectronic theseseprintsfedora commonsframeworkgoogle scholarhigher educationictinfrastructureinstitutional repositoryknowledge managementmetadataopen accessopen sourceportalportfoliopreservationrepositoriesresearchsoftwarestandardsvideowikiTue, 29 Apr 2008 23:00:00 +0000editor1386 at http://www.ariadne.ac.ukTowards an Application Profile for Imageshttp://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue55/eadie
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<p><a href="/issue55/eadie#author1">Mick Eadie</a> describes the development of the Dublin Core Images Application Profile project recently funded through the JISC.</p>
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<p>Following on from the project to develop an application profile for scholarly works (SWAP)[<a href="#1">1</a>], the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) has recently funded through its Repositories and Preservation Programme, a series of projects to establish Application Profiles in the areas of images, time-based media, geospatial data and learning objects [<a href="#2">2</a>].</p>
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<p><a href="/issue55/vif-wrkshp-rpt#author1">Sarah Molloy</a> reports on a half-day workshop on the use of the Version Identification Framework, held in Hatton Garden, London on 22 April 2008.</p>
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<p><a href="/issue54/allinson-et-al#author1">Julie Allinson</a>, <a href="/issue54/allinson-et-al#author2">Sebastien Francois</a> and <a href="/issue54/allinson-et-al#author3">Stuart Lewis</a> describe the JISC-funded SWORD Project which has produced a lightweight protocol for repository deposit.</p>
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<p><a href="/issue54/puplett#author1">Dave Puplett</a> outlines the issues associated with versions in institutional repositories, and discusses the solutions being developed by the Version Identification Framework (VIF) Project.</p>
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